Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-26
That Utterly Irrcpressible Boy.

From the Arkansas Traveller.
woman, on whose face deep lines had traced
the words 'Old without age" walked about In a
dime museum leading boy.
"Hoo, wee!" the boy exclaimed, 'look there"
"Thats the fat woman
"What made her so fat?"
81 don't know
sEating so much?"
81 don't know, tell YOU"
will you ever be that fat?"
"Why?n
Because don't want to be so fat"
''DOeS 1t hurt?"
mo, | think not
''rhen why don't you want to be so fat?"
because couldn't get around"
"But you wouldn't have TO get around. Papa
could get big table an you could set on 1t an
''Hush."
"If you don't hush I'll take you out OF here"
'Do you have to pay to go out?"
''No'
But you had to pay to come in, didn't your"
"Why don't you have to pay to go out?"
.'oh, look there! What's that man dolng?"
"spinning glass"
'Iiow spinning it,"
81 don't KNOW"
"Then how do you know he's spinning tt?-
III you don't hush this very minute I'll spank
you when we get home. You thrilling little rascal
you annoy me almost to death"
After short silence. mia, what's annoy7"
BOTHER"
Are you going to hush?" turning fercely upon
him.
"Oh, what's that?"
"The Circassian lady"
whats the matter with her hair2'
Nothing, it's natural"
chow natural?-
cit was always that way"
"When she was little teeny babyg-
'GraciouS alive, no."
TN "Inen how could it be that way always9"
She took hold OF his ear. "Ouch, nowi
Don't you cry here. II you do I'll whip you when
We get home"
"Why mustn't I cry here?,
Everybody would laugh at you.n
"Would the fat woman laugh?"
Eyes"
"Why?"
'Are you going to hush?n
"Yessum. What are them men doin'7"
They are COWBOYS. showing"
''What'S a cowbOy?"
"a man that drives cattle on the plains.n
"If he's man, how can be be a boy?r
hush?'
..Yessum: Are they any calf boysg"
Little children would be calf boys wouldn't
they?r
al suppose So"
cam a calf boy?"
"Whys,
III you don't hush this very minute I'll wear you
out. You shall never 20 anywhere with me again
never, never SO long as you live"
~ couldn't go after quit livin' could II"
"rll be an angel, won't IL"
81 suppose So"
"WilI look like blrd?"
81 don't Know"
''Like a chicken"
"Merciful heavens nor
"What will look like?p
81 don't know. Now, hush"
'But can fly, can't II"
ayes"
Way up highg"
won't ialls"
81 can ketch birds, can't II,
81 don't KNOW
"But if can fly fast l can, cantI7"
81 suppose So"
'Win go around and wrestle with people?o
say?" ''
why, you read in the Bible that Jacob wrestled
'Tm going to tell your father to whip you lust
as soon as we get home. YOu'Il see, sir-mind IL
you don't. You promised to be good boy, but
lore WV WIN W.
please don't tell him.
"Mill you be good7"
'YeSsum."
After few moments of silence. "Look at that
man, got on womans clothes"
THAT'S not man. It's the bearded lady,
"How bearded?"
"Got whlskerS."
'Will you have whiskerS?"
"Why?s
81 donr-look here, didn't you tell me that you
would be good? You give me the horrors"
whats the horrors"
"Come here TO me-" She seized him, and, as she
was hurrying rom the house. man addressed
her, saying that the performance had begun down
stairs.
"Ma what's the performance?D
She 1erked him through the door and dragged
him away.
A SPLIT LIKELY In THE LIBERAL CLuB-A Lon
don dispatch says IL Is probable that q split will
occur In the National Liberal club. Eighty. three
members have made reQuisitiOn upon the COM
mlttee 10 convene ameetiug OF the club to debate
resolution that in the interest OF the party the
Many uniOnists and GladstOnian members are OBJ
posed 10 such action on the ground That the club
comprises all sections of the liberal marty